Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that actually the opposite may be true. Before starting up the Writing Center, he asked 12 members of the faculty what their expectations were for students' papers. Most of them said they wished students would put more of themselves into their writing. "The faculty wanted to see more passion," Weinstein said. "It is really a shame that students think otherwise...
That aspect was in keeping with the meeting's original purpose: a climax to the church's two-year observance of the U.S. Bicentennial. But because delegates spent as much passion debating justice within the church as justice in society, the conference also amounted to America's first nationwide Pastoral Council. It revealed a profound gap between Roman Catholic leadership and restless activists on a series of vexing issues...
...Grumbach seems at all inadequate, it is because his costars are so nearly perfect. Laura Bartell's Anna is a superbly controlled performance. Her monologues ring with the passion of nostalgia; her eyes, gazing longingly at Kate, and her face, later crumpled with pain, convey decades of meaning...
...liberating as Lucrezia Borgia. Maritza gobbles fruit and chats about Django Reinhardt while Alex makes love to her; she also has a hard time staying out of jail for assaulting another bedmate. No prize himself, Alex is ever aware of his paramour's wanderlust; during bouts of passion, he keeps her handcuffed to the bedstead...
...film was a huge success and the screenplay won an Academy Award for Kanin and Lardner. The movie is legendary for many reasons, some of which have to do with the famous love affair between Tracy and Hepburn. The acting is superlative, beautiful really, and its precision and passion match the act of two professionals discovering that they mesh. This is being shown in a women's series, and although it is a wonderful movie, it is doubtful that it says anything significant or intelligent about women's rights or feminism or any of that stuff. One would be hard...